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  2. List of medical abbreviations: Q - Wikipedia

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    once every 6 hours q2wk: once every 2 weeks qAc Before every meal (from Latin quaque ante cibum) q.a.d. every other day (from Latin quaque altera die) QALY: quality-adjusted life year: q.AM: every day before noon (from Latin quaque die ante meridiem) q.d. every day (from Latin quaque die) q.d.s. four times each day (from Latin quater die ...

  3. Compartmental models in epidemiology - Wikipedia

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    For the full specification of the model, the arrows should be labeled with the transition rates between compartments. Between S and I, the transition rate is assumed to be (/) / = /, where is the total population, is the average number of contacts per person per time, multiplied by the probability of disease transmission in a contact between a susceptible and an infectious subject, and / is ...

  4. Incubation period - Wikipedia

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    3 weeks to months, or longer Infectious mononucleosis (glandular fever) 28 days [16] 42 days Influenza: 1 day [17] 3 days Kuru disease: 10.3 years (mean) [18] 13.2 years Leprosy: 1 year [19] 20 or more years Marburg: 5 days [20] 10 days Measles: 9 days [21] 12 days MERS: 2 days [22] 14 days Mumps: 14 days [23] 18 days Norovirus: 1 day [24] 2 ...

  5. Unit of time - Wikipedia

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    100 d (1 hd) 100 days, roughly equivalent to 1/4 of a year (91.25 days). In Chinese tradition "bǎi rì" is the hundredth day after one's birth, also called Baby's 100 Days Celebration. semester: 18 weeks: A division of the academic year. [6] Literally "six months", also used in this sense. lunar year: 354.37 d: year: 12 mo: 365 or 366 d ...

  6. List of epidemics and pandemics - Wikipedia

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    An epidemic is the rapid spread of disease to a large number of people in a given population within a short period of time; in meningococcal infections, an attack rate in excess of 15 cases per 100,000 people for two consecutive weeks is considered an epidemic. [1] Due to the long time spans, the first plague pandemic (6th century – 8th ...

  7. Could a once-daily pill for seizures also treat Alzheimer's ...

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    Researchers from AgeneBio and Johns Hopkins University are examining the use of a once-a-day investigational medication to treat amnestic mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer’s disease.

  8. ICD-10 - Wikipedia

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    ICD-10 is the 10th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), a medical classification list by the World Health Organization (WHO). It contains codes for diseases, signs and symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances, and external causes of injury or diseases. [1]

  9. Why are the first episodes called pilots? - AOL

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    A pilot is often the first episode of a new television series. Occasionally they will be presented as extra-long episodes, sometimes in the form of a TV movie, though this was much more common in ...